This week is Wendy James’ 50th birthday. Rock’s Backpages brings you an interview with Transvision Vamp from Melody Maker dated 2 April 1988 which reports on their latest manoeuvres to double-cross the the charts with slivers of pop art

With new Mercury Rev album The Light in You due next week, this Mojo piece from 1999 – republished courtesy of Rock’s Backpages – finds the band apparently unbothered by the departure of vocalist David Baker

It’s 25 years since Sonic Youth released Goo. Rock’s Backpages resurrects this interview, originally published in Sounds on 1 September 1990, where the band dismantle Madchester hype, brand Lou Reed ‘lame’ and slate the British press

To mark the 35th anniversary of the death of Ian Curtis, here’s a classic interview with Joy Division, first published in Sounds in November 1978, and taken from Rock’s Backpages, the online home of music writing

It’s 20 years since the release of Dummy, Portishead’s trip-hop masterpiece. To mark the anniversary, here’s a classic interview from 1994 - originally published in the Independent on Sunday and lifted from Rock’s Backpages

We get in the mood for Elizabeth Fraser's upcoming Meltdown performance with a trip to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – for an 80s interview with the Cocteau Twins

To celebrate My Bloody Valentine reissuing their classic albums Isn't Anything and Loveless, we revisit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for this interview with the band for Vox magazine by Stephen Dalton from April 1992

This week, Happy Mondays announced they are
reuniting for shows this summer. Here, in our latest visit to the archives of
Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism –
Betty Page meets the band in 1990, at the peak of the madness, for an article first published in Vox magazine

In our regular visit to the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – we reprint an early interview with instant indie darlings the Smiths, 'just the most important band around at the moment …'